Roman Catholic Church Sex Abuse Cases/Confucius

“For more than two decades, the Catholic Church has grappled with a series of clergy sexual abuse scandals and lawsuits. The cases have cost an estimated $2 billion in settlements and have shaken the faith of many of the church’s members.”

There were number of cases: Gilbert Gauthe in Louisiana was sentenced to 20 years in prison for molesting at least 35 children, Father John J. Geoghan was accused of abusing more than 130 boys over three decades, the priest, Brendan Smith, who was exposed 15 years later as the most notorious child-abuser in the history of the Irish church. There were number of cases in different countries of the EU.

As the reaction on that “the Vatican issued revisions to its internal laws on July 15 making it easier to discipline sex-abuser priests.” The overall document codified existing procedures that allow the Vatican to try priests accused of child sexual abuse using faster juridical procedures rather than full ecclesiastical trials.

Church is nor necessarily governed by good people. Confucius said in the Analects, “2-1. The Master said, ‘He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.’”  Probably he thought too well about people as we see from the article even in the holy institution there are awful problems and Confucius ideology can not be applied to the contemporary world.

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